29 January 2025

Ferry Project Celebrates after receiving £500k of National Lottery Funding to Redevelop Their Octavia View Homelessness Hostel

Regional Homelessness Social enterprise and charity, Ferry Project, is today celebrating after being awarded almost £500,000 in National Lottery funding to support its work to provide support, love, training and accommodation to homeless people. The organization, based in Wisbech, will use the money to redevelop the second floor rooms within the Octavia View building in order to create a new ‘haven’ to enable it to provide long-term psychologically informed accommodation and trauma informed support for its residents.

Ferry Project has been running since 1999 and is staffed by 40 members of staff. It was founded by Keith Smith after he realized...